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This should have been Emmanuel Adebayor’s day — and in one sense, as he helped Manchester City to secure the fourth consecutive victory that underlined the genuine threat they pose this season to Arsenal and the rest of the established elite, it still was. But his performance all afternoon was one that called to mind the famous quote from a French football official who said of Eric Cantona, another maverick centre forward who made his home in Manchester, that “behind you lies the trail of sulphur”. Like Cantona, Adebayor allowed the sulphur to intoxicate him.
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